{"id":8037,"date":"2013-10-28T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8037"},"modified":"2013-10-28T08:15:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T12:15:56","slug":"world-series-game-5-pitching-matchup-and-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=8037","title":{"rendered":"World Series Game 5 Pitching Matchup and Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four games into this World Series, and we&#8217;re tied up at 2 games a piece. \u00a0Boston got their must-win victory last night on the strength of the unlikely\u00a0<strong>Jonny Gomes<\/strong> (former Nat) and on 85mph fastballs from\u00a0<strong>Clay Buchholz<\/strong>. \u00a0<strong>Lance Lynn<\/strong> didn&#8217;t pitch badly; in fact his stuff looked pretty good early on. \u00a0But one bad pitch to Gomes and the game was over.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5:\u00a0<strong>Jon Lester<\/strong> versus\u00a0<strong>Adam Wainwright<\/strong>. \u00a0a repeat of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/probable_pitchers\/index.jsp?tcid=mm_mlb_news\">Game 1 matchup<\/a>, though this time the tables are reversed in terms of road team\/home team. \u00a0 In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/gl.cgi?id=wainwad01&amp;t=p&amp;year=0&amp;post=1\">four career home playoff starts<\/a> Wainwright has conceded exactly four runs. \u00a0 Lester had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/split.cgi?id=lestejo01&amp;year=2013&amp;t=p\">.500 record and a 4.21 ERA<\/a> on the road this season. \u00a0Despite St. Louis&#8217; inability to hit lefties, I don&#8217;t think Wainwright is losing tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Expect a close game, with St. Louis perhaps coming out on top with a 2-1 victory. \u00a0And since we&#8217;ve already had two rather rare game-ending baserunning mishaps (an obstruction call and a pick-off), i&#8217;m calling for Game 5 to include something like a running out of order, or a missed base being called out on appeal or something random. \u00a0Maybe we&#8217;ll just get a hotly contested balk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four games into this World Series, and we&#8217;re tied up at 2 games a piece. \u00a0Boston got their must-win victory last night on the strength of the unlikely\u00a0Jonny Gomes (former Nat) and on 85mph fastballs from\u00a0Clay Buchholz. \u00a0Lance Lynn didn&#8217;t pitch badly; in fact his stuff looked pretty good early on. \u00a0But one bad pitch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[346,319,221,149,897],"class_list":["post-8037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-season","tag-adam-wainwright","tag-clay-buchholz","tag-jon-lester","tag-jonny-gomes","tag-lance-lynn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8038,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions\/8038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}